Modeling and Simulation of the Hydrogenation of α-Methylstyrene on Catalytically Active Metal Foams as Tubular Reactor Packing

Figure 11

Comparison of the reactor performance of continuous tubular reactor with foam catalysts with conventional reactors; stirred tank with a fine slurry catalyst (°C,  bar) Meille et al. [16]; tubular reactor with catalytically active foam packing in cocurrent upward flow (40°C, 10 bar,  mL min⁻¹) Lali [33]; the simulation results of the present work (40°C, 10 bar,  mL min⁻¹) Lali [33]; trickle bed reactor (40°C, 10 bar,  mL min⁻¹) Schubert [34].